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host: the comments of speaker john boehner. again, the white house indicating the president and the speaker had a conversation on wednesday, although, there's no details from press secretary jay carney on the specifics. "the new york times" has this on its editorial page. "republicans cannot walk away from their responsibility to pay the bills and keep the economy out of crisis." republican line, good morning. caller: yes. i like to know why everyone -- everyone -- everyone has to wait until the last minute until they try to come up with a solution. i believe both democrats and republicans are at fault on this matter. i think they should both lookout for the interest of the country. host: ok. thank you out for the call on the line for republicans. another tweet from joe ramirez. from page of "the wall street journal." to headlines to share with you. it brought formal investigation into whether google has abused -- above the fold, also in "the wall street journal" -- the story we were talking about yesterday. the u.s. and other
host: the comments of speaker john boehner. again, the white house indicating the president and the speaker had a conversation on wednesday, although, there's no details from press secretary jay carney on the specifics. "the new york times" has this on its editorial page. "republicans cannot walk away from their responsibility to pay the bills and keep the economy out of crisis." republican line, good morning. caller: yes. i like to know why everyone -- everyone -- everyone...
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boehner get a resolution passed that basically was like a slap on the wrist and just said that need to show us the report and try to explain the entire situation is there even a need for this to go to the courts i mean my courts just push it aside and say congress this is on hue you have the power to approve for us to fund wars and you're not empowered each president if you feel like they're acting you know not in accordance with the law in the most parallel case my friend tom campbell who is a member of the house of representatives clinton over the war in bosnia actually tried to get a declaration from congress that said no and the courts basically said what you've repeat the remedy is within congress i don't plan i was trying to read and hear the answers. because not make it legal just because there's no sanction we commit torture and we don't prosecute that doesn't make torture legal when the president violates the fourth as i would say limited war was illegal and a little different. lately illegal and justice robert jackson said so in youngstown sheet and tube the stories well i
boehner get a resolution passed that basically was like a slap on the wrist and just said that need to show us the report and try to explain the entire situation is there even a need for this to go to the courts i mean my courts just push it aside and say congress this is on hue you have the power to approve for us to fund wars and you're not empowered each president if you feel like they're acting you know not in accordance with the law in the most parallel case my friend tom campbell who is a...
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boehner do not exactly see eye to eye on now one day after the house voted to cut off funding for military operations in libya the speaker warned obama of skating on thin legal ice but keeping american forces involved in libya for nearly three months without congressional approval now boehner is not alone and suffering from libya for t.v. today a barn.
boehner do not exactly see eye to eye on now one day after the house voted to cut off funding for military operations in libya the speaker warned obama of skating on thin legal ice but keeping american forces involved in libya for nearly three months without congressional approval now boehner is not alone and suffering from libya for t.v. today a barn.
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president obama and house speaker john boehner have scheduled a golf date. the president extended the invitation a few weeks ago. boehner accepted. they're scheduled to play two weeks from today. should be interesting. >>> this week, we learned home prices hit a new low in the first quarter of the year, down more than 5% from a year ago. a high number of foreclosures are flooding the market. that's what contributed to this decline. repossessed properties are selling at bargain prices. that's driving down overall values, affecting everybody. a summit in the nation's capital is focused on preventing foreclosures by bringing homeowners face to face with their lenders. that is key. skn's mark preston is live at the event. mark, are these lenders empowered with the ability to actually negotiate with these homeowners? >> reporter: yes, richelle. that's exactly what's happening at this seminar here today. lenders are actually here sitting at the table across from these folks facing foreclosure who are in the process of foreclosure right now. that's a big leap for a
president obama and house speaker john boehner have scheduled a golf date. the president extended the invitation a few weeks ago. boehner accepted. they're scheduled to play two weeks from today. should be interesting. >>> this week, we learned home prices hit a new low in the first quarter of the year, down more than 5% from a year ago. a high number of foreclosures are flooding the market. that's what contributed to this decline. repossessed properties are selling at bargain prices....
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john boehner, the republican speak are-to-be. our correspondent asked him about his relationship with the president of the united states and had an idea. let's listen. >> it is not a state secret that you and the president don't exactly have a warm and fuzzy relationship. if you were to achieve your goal and if you were to become the next speaker of the house how would you -- how would you work with him? maybe a golf summit or something like that? >> listen, i like the president. we get along personally. we disagree, but yes, we're not especially close, but i suspect in the coming months we'll have an opportunity to get a lot closer. >> maybe in the coming days. we'll show you some pictures. both of these guys like golf. we've had beer summits and we'll have the golf summit. they'll go golfing on june 18th. a lot to negotiate he
john boehner, the republican speak are-to-be. our correspondent asked him about his relationship with the president of the united states and had an idea. let's listen. >> it is not a state secret that you and the president don't exactly have a warm and fuzzy relationship. if you were to achieve your goal and if you were to become the next speaker of the house how would you -- how would you work with him? maybe a golf summit or something like that? >> listen, i like the president. we...
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signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: "morning drive." -- pursuant to the order of january 5, 2011, the members are recognized. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority leader and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. today, we are starting the most important debate of 2012 in congress, the re-authorization of the farm bill. now, it's true that we are just talking about the ag appropriations bill and much of the reform agenda will be difficult or ruled out of order due to the restrictive approach of the rules, although in the past some of my republican leadership friends have had no compunction about legislating on appropriations bills. but here we will be protecting large agri business instead of american
signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: "morning drive." -- pursuant to the order of january 5, 2011, the members are recognized. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority leader and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from...
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mike walker from "golf" magazine and john avalon, to you as well. >> president obama and john boehner is first round matches and includes golf rounds and cast your vote at golf.com. >> we will be right back. 58 minutes after the hour!
mike walker from "golf" magazine and john avalon, to you as well. >> president obama and john boehner is first round matches and includes golf rounds and cast your vote at golf.com. >> we will be right back. 58 minutes after the hour!
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they got their medicare and medicaid your john boehner say this is what the people want. it is not what the people want. it is with the big businesses want. i am a strong supporter of the republican party, but i'm seriously thinking of switching over to the democrats. in guest: if you're going to change tax policy for corporations, do it in the context of revising the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, so we could be more competitive with our international competition. do not until in the context of raising more money so that covers -- do not do it in the context of raising more money so that congress spends more. he talked about medicare. republicans want to save medicare. it is part of the social fabric of america. it is not just a government program. he is a government program, but you have to remember, when people retire from john deere in prior -- iowa, they get health care paid for by the corporation. after they become 65, medicare is dovetailed in with their corporate health retirement plan, and their john deere plan becomes a supplement to medicare. i
they got their medicare and medicaid your john boehner say this is what the people want. it is not what the people want. it is with the big businesses want. i am a strong supporter of the republican party, but i'm seriously thinking of switching over to the democrats. in guest: if you're going to change tax policy for corporations, do it in the context of revising the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, so we could be more competitive with our international competition. do not until...
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we begin with speaker john boehner. host: nancy pelosi. "we are now beginning the process of bringing our troops home and ending the war in afghanistan." host: senator cornyn, republican of texas. back to your calls. josh is a republican in sweetwater, texas. what did you think of the president's speech last night? caller: it was interesting. host: what does that mean? caller: i do believe we need to draw back our troops as soon as possible. yes, i do. i do not believe that we should be spending all the money that the united states spends to help them rebuild their country. germany and other countries we went to war with in the past -- has made them proud for themselves. if we continue to support -- they will never get any better. host: "we should not adhere to a timetable" -- this is met ronnie -- this is mitt romney. in fact, hillary clinton will testify at the senate foreign relations committee today beginning at 10:00 a.m.. you can see that on c-span3. she will be talking about the president's withdrawal plan. this is issa. he takes a
we begin with speaker john boehner. host: nancy pelosi. "we are now beginning the process of bringing our troops home and ending the war in afghanistan." host: senator cornyn, republican of texas. back to your calls. josh is a republican in sweetwater, texas. what did you think of the president's speech last night? caller: it was interesting. host: what does that mean? caller: i do believe we need to draw back our troops as soon as possible. yes, i do. i do not believe that we should...
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they got their medicare and medicaid your john boehner say this is what the people want. it is not what the people want. it is with the big businesses want. i am a strong supporter of the republican party, but i'm seriously thinking of switching over to the democrats. in guest: if you're going to change tax policy for corporations, do it in the context of revising the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, so we could be more competitive with our international competition. do not until in the context of raising more money so that covers -- do not do it in the context of raising more money so that congress spends more. he talked about medicare. republicans want to save medicare. it is part of the social fabric of america. it is not just a government program. he is a government program, but you have to remember, when people retire from john deere in prior -- iowa, they get health care paid for by the corporation. after they become 65, medicare is dovetailed in with their corporate health retirement plan, and their john deere plan becomes a supplement to medicare. i
they got their medicare and medicaid your john boehner say this is what the people want. it is not what the people want. it is with the big businesses want. i am a strong supporter of the republican party, but i'm seriously thinking of switching over to the democrats. in guest: if you're going to change tax policy for corporations, do it in the context of revising the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, so we could be more competitive with our international competition. do not until...
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other speakers included john boehner, paul ryan, haley barbour. we will show you their remarks next. , it's a beautiful day. [cheers and applause] >> hey, everybody, good morning! [applause] how you doing? good. good to be with you today. listen, i want to share with you a story. it's an unpleasant story. for those of us who have served in congress for a while, we were there in 2008 when we had a financial crash. and then we watched a recession start. we saw millions of people, friends, families, constituents lose their jobs. we saw trillions of dollars of wealth just vanish because we had a great recession. con subsequently, usually the bigger the recession you have in this country, the bigger the recovery. where's the recovery? but i want to tell you something, when that 2008 financial crisis happened, it caught us all by surprise. we didn't see it coming. and so ugly crisis legislation emerged from that. i want to ask you a question. what if your congressman, your senator, your president saw that financial crash coming, knew it was going to hap
other speakers included john boehner, paul ryan, haley barbour. we will show you their remarks next. , it's a beautiful day. [cheers and applause] >> hey, everybody, good morning! [applause] how you doing? good. good to be with you today. listen, i want to share with you a story. it's an unpleasant story. for those of us who have served in congress for a while, we were there in 2008 when we had a financial crash. and then we watched a recession start. we saw millions of people, friends,...
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i am proud of the fact that john boehner named ron paul as the chairman of the subcommittee. in fact, i told ron one of the things i would love to do is let's go see the gold. this is done in to me. we were told that we could not do that. what do you mean? the people cannot see the actual gold? it causes a lot of eyebrows to raise it. i would like to go see it. we are going to try to push that issue. i think what ron paul has done is to have an audit of the federal reserve. i co-sponsored the bill in the last congress. it is reasonable for the american people to have some exposure to what is happening there. all of this starts with having an audit of the federal reserve. that seems like a reasonable position to me. host: lancaster, pa., philip is on our republican line. caller: yes, i agree with the previous caller. i think ron pollack is the only candidate that is running on the republican docket that has any common sense. these guys get off on these half-ass schemes. they're only working for themselves. ron paul is a man who if he says he is going to do something, he does i
i am proud of the fact that john boehner named ron paul as the chairman of the subcommittee. in fact, i told ron one of the things i would love to do is let's go see the gold. this is done in to me. we were told that we could not do that. what do you mean? the people cannot see the actual gold? it causes a lot of eyebrows to raise it. i would like to go see it. we are going to try to push that issue. i think what ron paul has done is to have an audit of the federal reserve. i co-sponsored the...
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john boehner has been listening to them. i think the real test for him and mitch mcconnell will be over the debt ceiling crisis we are about to have in late august or september. host: orrin hatch of utah is up for reelection next year. he may be facing a primary challenge. will you support him? guest: we think it is time for him to retire. if you look at his record of the last 35 years, there have been too many votes and pieces of legislation he has gotten behind that are anathema to the people of utah that represent the tea party. we're working closely with activists in that state. it is not just for the tarp bailout, gm bailout, but probably most offensive to two- party values is his support with ted kennedy for a dramatic expansion of government health care in the waning days of the hillary care fight. he literally pulled out of the dustbin of history and recreated the program in terms of kids first. that is the basis for obamacare. this is not have tea party-ers roll. host: gray supports his reelection. guest: i have tal
john boehner has been listening to them. i think the real test for him and mitch mcconnell will be over the debt ceiling crisis we are about to have in late august or september. host: orrin hatch of utah is up for reelection next year. he may be facing a primary challenge. will you support him? guest: we think it is time for him to retire. if you look at his record of the last 35 years, there have been too many votes and pieces of legislation he has gotten behind that are anathema to the people...
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president obama and john boehner playing golf at andrews air force base. right below that is this story for gay marriage of views evolves. barack obama during the senate race of 2004. kevin thompson found himself tutoring the candidate on gay- rights. mr. thompson recalled conversations about topics like the 1969 stonewall rebellion that sparked the gay-rights movement, gay adoption, mr. thompson recalled and same-sex marriage was mr. obama has opposed. mr. thompson is skeptical about that. to this day, i do not think barack obama has any issue with two people of the same chair dree -- gender getting married. dree -- gender getting married. he is seeking support from gay donors who want to know where he stands. he is doing so at a time when the legislature is considering whether to make same-sex marriage legal. a vote the president will be asked about while in new york. the white house would not comment if he was ready to endorse same-sex marriage. that is in the "new york times" this morning. who is your canada? we start to mississippi with larry on the d
president obama and john boehner playing golf at andrews air force base. right below that is this story for gay marriage of views evolves. barack obama during the senate race of 2004. kevin thompson found himself tutoring the candidate on gay- rights. mr. thompson recalled conversations about topics like the 1969 stonewall rebellion that sparked the gay-rights movement, gay adoption, mr. thompson recalled and same-sex marriage was mr. obama has opposed. mr. thompson is skeptical about that. to...
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signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson, for five minutes. mr. wilson: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, on tuesday night the people's house spoke loud and clear. no debt limit increase without real spending cuts to promote job growth. liberals wanted to increase the debt limit by $2.4 trillion with no meaningful reforms. at a time when the federal government is borrowing 42 cents of every dollar it spends the last thing americans want to do is raise the government's borrowing li
signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate...
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john boehner has been listening to them. i think the real test for him and mitch mcconnell will be over the debt ceiling crisis we are about to have in late august or september. host: orrin hatch of utah is up for reelection next year. he may be facing a primary challenge. will you support him? guest: we think it is time for him to retire. if you look at his record of the last 35 years, there have been too many votes and pieces of legislation he has gotten behind that are anathema to the people of utah that represent the tea party. we're working closely with activists in that state. it is not just for the tarp bailout, gm bailout, but probably most offensive to two- party values is his support with ted kennedy for a dramatic expansion of government health care in the waning days of the hillary care fight. he literally pulled out of the dustbin of history and recreated the program in terms of kids first. that is the basis for obamacare. this is not have tea party-ers roll. host: gray supports his reelection. guest: i have tal
john boehner has been listening to them. i think the real test for him and mitch mcconnell will be over the debt ceiling crisis we are about to have in late august or september. host: orrin hatch of utah is up for reelection next year. he may be facing a primary challenge. will you support him? guest: we think it is time for him to retire. if you look at his record of the last 35 years, there have been too many votes and pieces of legislation he has gotten behind that are anathema to the people...
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perhaps there can be some kind of a meeting between the president and john boehner. kind of the ironic thing here is republicans were saying yesterday they want to get the president more heavily involved. democrats on capitol hill were saying they were afraid that they would be cut out of the process if the president does get involved. so even there, you have disagreements among democrats, just as you have on the republican side, disagreements there. tom colburn, you were there last week when we were talking at the economic summit. you heard tom colburn, the conservative city from oklahoma saying, look, the real problem here is that nobody in either party is willing to step up to the plate and do what needs to be done because they are worried if they do, they won't get elected in the next election and that is what this is all about. somehow, they have got to find the political courage to get this done and, right now, i don't see it. >> bob schieffer, thank you. >>> you can see bob's interview with congresswoman michele bachmann on "face the nation" this sunday mornin
perhaps there can be some kind of a meeting between the president and john boehner. kind of the ironic thing here is republicans were saying yesterday they want to get the president more heavily involved. democrats on capitol hill were saying they were afraid that they would be cut out of the process if the president does get involved. so even there, you have disagreements among democrats, just as you have on the republican side, disagreements there. tom colburn, you were there last week when...
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. >>> sticking with politics now, when john boehner was elected speaker of the house earlier this year, many people had trouble pronouncing his name. he talked about that as well as another name in the news during a commencement address at ohio state over the weekend. what a he said is today's sound affect. >> when you begin to go out there and ask people to vote for you, they're probably not going to vote for you if they cannot say your name. my name looks like beaner, bonner, boner, and thank god it's not weiner. [ applause ] . >> yes, that last part of course was a reference to congressman anthony weiner whose name is being said a lot and not in a good way. things just seem to be going from bad to worse. over the weekend several leaders of his own democratic party called on weiner to resign from congress. and that was before these pictures serviced. tmz.com published these photos that were taken by weiner himself at the gym in the house. weiner's office is not talking. weiner's office does say the congressman will take a leave of absence to get some treatment. >>> in other news, ari
. >>> sticking with politics now, when john boehner was elected speaker of the house earlier this year, many people had trouble pronouncing his name. he talked about that as well as another name in the news during a commencement address at ohio state over the weekend. what a he said is today's sound affect. >> when you begin to go out there and ask people to vote for you, they're probably not going to vote for you if they cannot say your name. my name looks like beaner, bonner,...
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host: how is your loss a different from john boehner's letter to the president saying in five days you will be in violation of the war powers act. guest: i am glad to play a role in bringing the bringing forward his action. i think he did do the right thing requiring the president to come forward with information, which, frankly, he should have done back in march. where we are now is this -- this lawsuit is the only way that we can reset the imbalance that has occurred constitutionally, where the founders and the beginning intended the war powers be placed in the hands of the people's representatives, the congress, and not in the hands of an executive, who, when we were under england, could wage war wantonly at the expense of the country and the people. what happened is this administration and others, frankly, decided to appropriate the war power and therefore create a constitutional challenge. this lawsuit is really aimed at trying to reset our system of checks and balances, and attempting to restore congress's right foot wall as a coequal branch of government and to make sure we are
host: how is your loss a different from john boehner's letter to the president saying in five days you will be in violation of the war powers act. guest: i am glad to play a role in bringing the bringing forward his action. i think he did do the right thing requiring the president to come forward with information, which, frankly, he should have done back in march. where we are now is this -- this lawsuit is the only way that we can reset the imbalance that has occurred constitutionally, where...
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john baker another -- john boehner and other leaders spoke after the figures were released. this is about 10 minutes. >> job creators will tell you that the overtaxing, over regulating, and overspending going on in washington is creating uncertainty and holding them back. this week, house republicans met with the president and urged him to change course and work with us and our plan for new jobs and economic growth in our country. we hope he will take us of what her invitation. we are serious about creating jobs in america. we cannot raise taxes on the very people who create jobs and keep spending money that we don't have. yesterday moody's the reinforced our point that an increase in the debt limit without major spending cuts will hurt our economy and destroy jobs. that is why we said the spending cuts must accompany any increase in the debt limit. one look at the jobs report should be enough to show the white house it's time to get serious about cutting spending and dealing with our ailing economy. >> good morning, if there is every time we need to focus on jobs, this is i
john baker another -- john boehner and other leaders spoke after the figures were released. this is about 10 minutes. >> job creators will tell you that the overtaxing, over regulating, and overspending going on in washington is creating uncertainty and holding them back. this week, house republicans met with the president and urged him to change course and work with us and our plan for new jobs and economic growth in our country. we hope he will take us of what her invitation. we are...
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. -- john boehner. we will hear from one person in a second. california, and democrats line. caller: when muammar gaddafi in the previous administration, president bush, got together to negotiate a peaceful relationship between the two countries, ththat is when the people turned against gaddafi. people did not say much about being a friend of terrorists. being a friend of terrorists. people turn against him, and i think the united states should leave those people alone and let them work things out of themselves. we support terrorists when we support those rebel leaders. host: joe of twitter says this. here is what was said about the amendment yesterday. >> we have undertaken a huge mission through the united states in the name of nato, without coming to congress. that is what we are debating. if on the other hand the information that the administration has communicated as of late to the congress, if it suggests a lighter footprint, there should be no difficulty in pulling out of libya in 15 days. if there is, we need to start asking questions about how deeply enmeshed we are,
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until then, remarks from john boehner. this morning he called on president obama to become involved with congressional leaders on budget cuts needed to get the votes to raise the debt limit. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> you know, it's now been nearly a year since the white house declared the beginning of recovery summer. all in all, it hasn't been much of a recovery. the american people are still struggling with high energy prices, high food prices, jobs continue to be scarce, and practically the rebound in the economy has failed to materialize. yesterday we told the president what many americans were thinking that the economy isn't creating enough private sector jobs and washington continues to be a big reason why. reason, this issue has been and continues to be a focus of our majority. and last week, we put forward a job creation plan that builds on our place to america and we asked the president to take a look at it. and this blueprint recognizes that spending, borrowing, and regulating are a way to p
until then, remarks from john boehner. this morning he called on president obama to become involved with congressional leaders on budget cuts needed to get the votes to raise the debt limit. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> you know, it's now been nearly a year since the white house declared the beginning of recovery summer. all in all, it hasn't been much of a recovery. the american people are still struggling with high energy prices, high food prices, jobs...
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john boehner sent a letter to president obama on the simmering constitutional conflict. unless he gets authorization from congress, he will be in violation of the war powers resolution. it says that mr. obama must provide a sense of justification by friday for committing troops to libya. bryan, ohio, dolores joins us. what does president obama need to do to win in 2012? caller: i am very pleased to be able to talk to you. i have listened for over 30 years. i am a 69-year-old democrat who was campaigning for president obama. i was so joyous when he became president. i am losing faith, however, in our system. i believe we no longer have a democracy of the people. the people no longer have a voice in electing our president. right now money elect our presidents. i was chagrined, not the strong this word, when i saw our present standing the side wall street executives appealing to them for their support. right now in congress, there is legislation pending called barry elections now. -- fair elections now. if we the people do not demand that our representatives passed legislat
john boehner sent a letter to president obama on the simmering constitutional conflict. unless he gets authorization from congress, he will be in violation of the war powers resolution. it says that mr. obama must provide a sense of justification by friday for committing troops to libya. bryan, ohio, dolores joins us. what does president obama need to do to win in 2012? caller: i am very pleased to be able to talk to you. i have listened for over 30 years. i am a 69-year-old democrat who was...
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host: how is your loss a different from john boehner's letter to the president saying in five days you will be in violation of the war powers act. guest: i am glad to play a role in bringing the bringing forward his action. i think he did do the right thing requiring the president to come forward with information, which, frankly, he should have done back in march. where we are now is this -- this lawsuit is the only way that we can reset the imbalance that has occurred constitutionally, where the founders and the beginning intended the war powers be placed in the hands of the people's representatives, the congress, and not in the hands of an executive, who, when we were under england, could wage war wantonly at the expense of the country and the people. what happened is this administration and others, frankly, decided to appropriate the war power and therefore create a constitutional challenge. this lawsuit is really aimed at trying to reset our system of checks and balances, and attempting to restore congress's right foot wall as a coequal branch of government and to make sure we are
host: how is your loss a different from john boehner's letter to the president saying in five days you will be in violation of the war powers act. guest: i am glad to play a role in bringing the bringing forward his action. i think he did do the right thing requiring the president to come forward with information, which, frankly, he should have done back in march. where we are now is this -- this lawsuit is the only way that we can reset the imbalance that has occurred constitutionally, where...
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kasich and speaker of the house john boehner playing golf over the weekend. pointing out certainly the situation in afghanistan and the budget deficit likely came up. no directorate out from the white house. a lot of pictures, including the fact that the president and speaker gaining two dollars and a friendly wager on one of the holes. here is a scene from andrews air force base golf tournaments saturday. kansas city, good morning. welcome to the conversation. caller: kansas city, kansas. caller: john from kansas city, good morning. caller: am i on? what reelect -- what we really need to do. it is really simple. we have to go back to before we became a nation of peons back to before trickle-down economics, put the tax rates back and stop the insane trade agreements and against our country back in order again. this whole trickle-down economics has killed us over all of these years. it didn't happen overnight. it has been going on for a long time. it is just now they are really sitting in -- settling in and we reached our basic demise. host: michael boskin who
kasich and speaker of the house john boehner playing golf over the weekend. pointing out certainly the situation in afghanistan and the budget deficit likely came up. no directorate out from the white house. a lot of pictures, including the fact that the president and speaker gaining two dollars and a friendly wager on one of the holes. here is a scene from andrews air force base golf tournaments saturday. kansas city, good morning. welcome to the conversation. caller: kansas city, kansas....
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john boehner sent a letter to president obama on the simmering constitutional conflict. unless he gets authorization from congress, he will be in violation of the wapowers resolution. it says that mr. obama must provide a sense of justification by friday for committing troops to libya. bryan, ohio, dolores joins us. what does president obama need to do to win in 2012? caller: i am very pleased to be able to talk to you. i have listened for over 30 years. i am a 69-year-old democrat who was campaigning for president obama. i was so joyous when he became president. i am losing faith, however, in our system. i believe we no longer have a democracy of the people. the people no longer have a voice in electing our president. right now money elect our presidents. i was chagrined, not the strong this word, when i saw our present standing the side wall street executives appealing to them for their support. right now in congres there is legislation pending called barry elections now. -- fair elections now. if we the people do not demand that our representatives passed legislation
john boehner sent a letter to president obama on the simmering constitutional conflict. unless he gets authorization from congress, he will be in violation of the wapowers resolution. it says that mr. obama must provide a sense of justification by friday for committing troops to libya. bryan, ohio, dolores joins us. what does president obama need to do to win in 2012? caller: i am very pleased to be able to talk to you. i have listened for over 30 years. i am a 69-year-old democrat who was...
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this is going to be -- president obama, speaker john boehner, and majority leader harry reid decision. it is time for them to get around and negotiate the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. the gentlelady will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentlelady may proceed. ms. ros-lehtinen: i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, i do not support a complete u.s. withdrawal from nato's operation unified protector. i believe that it is necessary for u.s. armed forces to remain engaged in a limited capacity. however, i cannot support an authorization which constitutes our current level of engagement for an entire year. this is what is proposed in h.j.res. 68 offered by my friend from florida, mr. hastings, and i therefore must rise in opposition to his resolution. this resolution not only authorizes u.s. military engagement in libya, far beyond even the 90-day nato extension, but it justifies u.s.
this is going to be -- president obama, speaker john boehner, and majority leader harry reid decision. it is time for them to get around and negotiate the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. the gentlelady will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentlelady may proceed. ms. ros-lehtinen: i thank...
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john boehner and others spoke to reporters after the figures were released. this is about 10 minutes. >> it is clear from this morning's jobs report that the economy still isn't creating enough jobs. you talk to job creators around the country like we have, and they will tell you that the over taxing, over regulating and over spending going on here in washington is creating uncertainty and holding them back. this week house republicans met with the president and urged him to change course and to work with us on our plan for new jobs and economic growth in our country. we hope he will take us up on our invitation. we are serious about creating jobs in america, but we can't raise taxes on the very people who create jobs and keep spending money that we don't have. yesterday moody's reinforced our point that an increase in the debt limit without major spending cuts will hurt our economy and destroy jobs. that is why we said the spending cuts must accompany any increase in the debt limit. one look at the jobs report should be enough to show the white house it's ti
john boehner and others spoke to reporters after the figures were released. this is about 10 minutes. >> it is clear from this morning's jobs report that the economy still isn't creating enough jobs. you talk to job creators around the country like we have, and they will tell you that the over taxing, over regulating and over spending going on here in washington is creating uncertainty and holding them back. this week house republicans met with the president and urged him to change course...
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. >> house speaker john boehner, i know i'm going on a lot of different topics. >> sure, no problem. >> lot of stories are making news. members of your party are saying that the president needs congressional approval now to continue war operations in libya. it's been three months. do they have a point there? >> i think they have a very valid point. i wish the president, also, by the way, would speak more to the american people about the libyan situation. gadhafi is crumbling. he will go, in my view. unfortunately, because u.s. air assets were not used to any effect, that situation has been prolonged with needless deaths and casualties. but the president clearly has engaged the united states in hostilities and john kerry and i have a resolution that we're going to be bringing to the floor as soon as possible. >> all right. last question this morning, senator. and it's about the presidential campaign. you know the latest numbers the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll found just 45% of republicans are happy about the current crop of candidates on the republican side. would you consider
. >> house speaker john boehner, i know i'm going on a lot of different topics. >> sure, no problem. >> lot of stories are making news. members of your party are saying that the president needs congressional approval now to continue war operations in libya. it's been three months. do they have a point there? >> i think they have a very valid point. i wish the president, also, by the way, would speak more to the american people about the libyan situation. gadhafi is...
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they called for the president to detail his plans -- house speaker john boehner. they called for the president to detail his plans for the operation in libya. this is the last legislative action of the house for the next 10 days. a return on monday, june 13. this general debate runs about 2 1/2 hours. . ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. i rise in strong support of house resolution 292 sponsored by our distinguished speaker. . as the resolution states at the outset, the armed forces of the united states may only be used to defend and advance the national security interests of the united states. not to enforce, to quote the president, the writ of the international community, end quote. not -- nor because of the united nations -- nor because of the arab league. yet these are what the president has repeatedly pointed to in justifying sending u.s. forces into action in libya. but what he has not done is explain to the american people and to congress how the situation in libya, if allowed to spiral out of control, poses a threat to u.s. national security interests. it is an
they called for the president to detail his plans -- house speaker john boehner. they called for the president to detail his plans for the operation in libya. this is the last legislative action of the house for the next 10 days. a return on monday, june 13. this general debate runs about 2 1/2 hours. . ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. i rise in strong support of house resolution 292 sponsored by our distinguished speaker. . as the resolution states at the outset, the armed forces of the united...
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host: how is your loss a different from john boehner's letter to the president saying in five days you will be in violation of the war powers act. guest: i am glad to play a role in bringing the bringing forward his action. i think he did do the right thing requiring the president to come forward with information, which, frankly, he should have done back in march. where we are now is this -- this lawsuit is the only way that we can reset the imbalance that has occurred constitutionally, where the founders and the beginning intended the war powers be placed in the hands of the people's representatives, the congress, and not in the hands of an executive, who, when we were under england, could wage war wantonly at the expense of the country and the people. what happened is this administration and others, frankly, decided to appropriate the war power and therefore create a constitutional challenge. this lawsuit is really aimed at trying to reset our system of checks and balances, and attempting to restore congress's right foot wall as a coequal branch of government and to make sure we are
host: how is your loss a different from john boehner's letter to the president saying in five days you will be in violation of the war powers act. guest: i am glad to play a role in bringing the bringing forward his action. i think he did do the right thing requiring the president to come forward with information, which, frankly, he should have done back in march. where we are now is this -- this lawsuit is the only way that we can reset the imbalance that has occurred constitutionally, where...